Κάνθαρος

[The term comes] from the pack-ass [ka/nqwn], that is the donkey;¹ and from the seminal fluid [o)ro/s], that is the seed. For they say that the dung-beetle is conceived in this way. Whenever it finds a compacted piece of donkey-dung, it stops and rolls it with its feet and deposits its seed during the rolling; and out of this the dung-beetle comes into being. Hence also it bears its name from [sc. both] the pack-ass and the seminal fluid, that is the seed, being a sort of ka/nqwros. Or from the semen [qoro/s], which means the seed. Or semen-producing [qorw/n] [comes] from the pack-ass; meaning about the dung of the donkey. Or [that which] rushes forwards [o)rou/wn] out of the pack-ass. Properly a pack-ass [is] a donkey. A dung-beetle [is] a creature, and [sc. Kantharos is] a name of a harbour in Athens↗, and [lower-case kantharos is also] a kind of drinking-vessel.
A female dung-beetle does not occur; instead, all of them are born masculine.²